19421. Spokane Savings Bank (Spokane, WA)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
savings bank
Start Date
September 25, 1897
Location
Spokane, Washington (47.659, -117.426)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
db62b740060680a3

Response Measures

None

Description

Multiple same notices name Fred B. Grinnell as Receiver of Spokane Savings Bank (publication late Sep–Oct 1897). Notices advertise receiver's sale of assets, indicating the bank was placed in receivership and its assets being sold — a suspension followed by permanent closure/receivership. No articles mention depositor runs.

Events (2)
1. September 25, 1897 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
FRED B. GRINNELL, Receiver Spokane Savings Bank. Spokane, Wash., Sept. 25, 1897. RECEIVER'S SALE ... will receive sealed bids ... for the purchase ... first mortgage bonds ... and ... capital stock ... Said sale to be for cash ... The undersigned reserve the right to reject any and all bids. All bids must be sealed and addressed to either of the undersigned, at Spokane, Wash. A. D. LYNCH, Receiver First National Bank. FRED B. GRINNELL, Receiver Spokane Savings Bank. (multiple publications Sept–Oct 1897).
Source
newspapers
2. September 25, 1897 Suspension
Cause
Government Action
Cause Details
Bank placed in receivership and receiver appointed; assets to be sold under court order (receiver's sale notices).
Newspaper Excerpt
FRED B. GRINNELL, Receiver Spokane Savings Bank. Spokane, Wash., Sept. 25, 1897.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (10)
1. September 30, 1897 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle, WA
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RECEIVER'S SALE. RECEIVER'S SALE.-Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will receive sealed bids for the period of thirty days after the first day of October, 1897, for the purchase of $226,200.00, par value, of the first mortgage bonds of the Last Chance Mining Company, and for 97,108 shares of its capital stock, of the par value of $10 per share, Said bonds are secured by first mortgage on said mining company's valuable properties in Shoshone county, Idaho. Such bonds and stocks are to be sold as an entirety, and such bonds are a majority of the first mortgage bonds, the issue of bonds being $400,000.00 (four hundred thousand dollars). Said sale to be for cash, payable within thirty days after notice of acceptance of bid. All bids must be accompanied by a certified check for $5,000 (five thousand dollars). payable to the undersigned, to be forfeited unless full payment be made within the time specified. The undersigned reserve the right to reject any and all bids. All bids must be sealed and addressed to either of the undersigned, at Spokane, Wash. A. D. LYNCH, Receiver First National Bank. FRED B. GRINNELL Receiver Spokane Savings Bank. Spokane, Wash., Sept. 25, 1897.

2. October 1, 1897 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle, WA
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RECEIVER'S SALE. RECEIVER'S SALE.-Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will receive sealed bids for the period of thirty days after the first day of October, 1897, for the purchase of $226,200.00, par value, of the first mortgage bonds of the Last Chance Mining Company, and for 97,108 shares of its capital stock, of the par value of $10 per share, Said bonds are secured by first mortgage on said mining company's valuable properties in Shoshone county. Idaho. Such bonds and stocks are to be sold as an entirety, and such bonds are a majority of the first mortgage bonds, the issue of bonds beIng $400,000.00 (four hundred thousand dollars). Said sale to be for cash, payable within thirty days after notice of acceptance of bid. All blds must be accompanied by a certified check for $5,000 (five thousand dollars). payable to the undersigned, to be forfeited unless full payment be made within the time specified. The undersigned reserve the right to reject any and all bids. All bids must be sealed and addressed to either of the undersigned, at Spokane, Wash. A. D. LYNCH, Receiver First National Bank. FRED B. GRINNELL, Receiver Spokane Savings Bank. Spokane, Wash., Sept. 25, 1897.

3. October 2, 1897 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle, WA
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RECEIVER'S SALE. RECEIVER'S SALE.-Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will receive sealed bids for the period of thirty days after the first day of October, 1897, for the purchase of $226,200.00, par value, of the first mortgage bonds of the Last Chance Mining Company. and for 97,108 shares of its capital stock, of the par value of $10 per share, Said bonds are secured by first mortgage on said mining company's valuable properties in Shoshone county, Idaho. Such bonds and stocks are to be sold as an entirety, and such bonds are a majority of the first mortgage bonds, the issue of bonds beIng $400,000.00 (four hundred thousand dollars). Said sale to be for cash, payable within thirty days after notice of acceptance of bid. All bids must be accompanied by a certified check for $5,000 (five thousand dollars), payable to the undersigned, to be forfeited unless full payment be made within the time specified. The undersigned reserve the right to reject any and all bids. All bids must be sealed and addressed to either of the undersigned, at Spokane, Wash. A. D. LYNCH, Receiver First National Bank. FRED B. GRINNELL, Receiver Spokane Savings Bank. Spokane, Wash., Sept. 25, 1897.

4. October 4, 1897 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle, WA
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RECEIVER'S SALE. RECEIVER'S SALE.-Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will receive sealed bids for the period of thirty days after the first day of October, 1897, for the purchase of $226,200.00, par value, of the first mortgage bonds of the Last Chance Mining Company, and for 97,108 shares of its capital stock, of the par value of $10 per share. Said bonds are secured by first mortgage on said mining company's valuable properties in Shoshone county. Idaho. Such bonds and stocks are to be sold as an entirety, and such bonds are a majority of the first mortgage bonds, the issue of bonds beIng $400,000.00 (four hundred thousand dollars). Said sale to be for cash, payable within thirty days after notice of acceptance of bid. All bids must be accompanied by a certifled check for $5,000 (five thousand dollars). payable to the undersigned, to be forfeited unless full payment be made within the time specified. The undersigned reserve the right to reject any and all bids. All bids must be sealed and addressed to either of the undersigned. at Spokane Wash. A. D. LYNCH, Receiver First National Bank. FRED B. GRINNELL Receiver Spokane Savings Bank. Spokane, Wash.. Sept. 25, 1897.

5. October 6, 1897 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle, WA
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RECEIVER'S SALE. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for King County. W. W. Dearborn et al., plaintiffs, VS. The Washington Savings Bank, defendant. No. 17,308. Notice is hereby given that under an order of court made in said cause on October 1. 1897, the undersigned will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, on Wednesday, October 20th, 1897, all those certain pieces of personal property of the Washington Savings Bank set out and described in a certain petition of the undersigned, filed in said court on the 30th day of August, 1897. Said property consists among other things of the following: Promissory notes, secured by mortgage and other collateral, and unsecured. Yakima county warrants. Whatcom county warrants. Seattle street improvement warrants. Town of Columbia warrants. Town of Hamilton warrants. Town of Centralia warrants. Clailam county warrants. Anacortes school district warrants. Tax certificates and tax deeds on property in King county. Washington, for the years 1890, 1891, 1892 and 1893. Said sale will take place in the Library Room of the King County Court House, Seattle, King County, Washington, and will be continued from day to day until all the property is sold. Terms of sale: Ten per cent. cash on the day of sale and the balance in cash on confirmation of sale by the court. A detailed list of said property may be had on application to the undersigned. At the same time and place the receiver will, under an order of court in said cause, sell ten six per cent. bonds of the Third Street & Suburban Railway Company to the highest and best bidder for cash, upon the following terms: No bid to be received for less than $1,380 for the ten bonds: terms, ten per cent. cash on the day of sale and balance in cash on confirmation of sale by the court. GEORGE H. KING. Receiver of the Washington Savings Bank, Room 53, Boston Block, Seattle, Washington. Clise & King. Attorneys for Receiver. Date of first publication October 5, 1897. RECEIVER'S SALE.-Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will receive sealed bids for the period of thirty days after the first day of October, 1897, for the purchase of $226,200.00, par value, of the first mortgage bonds of the Last Chance Mining Company, and for 97,108 shares of its capital stock, of the par value of $10 per share. Said bonds are secured by first mortgage on said mining company's valuable properties in Shoshone county, Idaho. Such bonds and stocks are to be sold as an entirety, and such bonds are a majority of the first mortgage bonds. the issue of bonds being $400,000.00 (four hundred thousand dollars). Said sale to be for cash. payable within thirty days after notice of acceptance of bid. All bids must be accompanied by a certifled check for $5,000 (five thousand dollars), payable to the undersigned, to be forfeited unless full payment be made within the time specified. The undersigned reserve the right to reject any and all bids. All bids must be sealed and addressed to either of the undersigned, at Spokane. Wash. A. D. LYNCH, Receiver First National Bank. FRED B. GRINNELL, Receiver Spokane Savings Bank. Spokane, Wash.. Sept. 25, 1897.

6. October 7, 1897 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle, WA
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RECEIVER'S SALE. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for King County. W. W. Dearborn et al., plaintiffs, vs. The Washington Savings Bank, defendant. No. 17,308. Notice is hereby given that under an order of court made in said cause on October 1, 1897, the undersigned will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, on Wednesday, October 20th, 1897, all those certain pieces of personal property of the Washington Savings Bank set out and described in a certain petition of the undersigned. filed in said court on the 30th day of August, 1897. Said prop. rty consists among other things of the following: Promissory notes, secured by mortgage and other collateral. and unsecured. Yakima county warrants. Whatcom county warrants. Seattle street improvement warrants. Town of Columbia warrants. Town of Hamilton warrants. Town of Centralia warrants. Clallam county warrants. Anacortes school district warrants. Tax certificates and tax deeds on property in King county. Washington, for the years 1890, 1891. 1892 and 1893. Said sale will take place in the Library Room of the King County Court House, Seattle, King County, Washington, and will be continued from day to day until all the property is sold. Terms of sale: Ten per cent. cash on the day of sale and the balance in cash on confirmation of sale by the court. A detailed list of said property may be had on application to the undersigned. At the same time and place the receiver will. under an order of court in said cause, sell ten six per cent. bonds of the Third Street & Suburban Railway Company to the highest and best bidder for cash, upon the following terms: No bid to be received for less than $1.380 for the ten bonds: terms, ten per cent. cash on the day of sale and balance in cash on confirmation of sale by the court. GEORGE H. KING, Receiver of the Washington Savings Bank, Room 53, Boston Block, Seattle, Washington. Clise & King, Attorneys for Receiver. Date of first publication October 5, 1897. RECEIVER'S SALE.-Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will receive sealed bids for the period of thirty days after the first day of October, 1897, for the purchase of $226,200.00, par value, of the first mortgage bonds of the Last Chance Mining Company. and for 97,108 shares of its capital stock, of the par value of $10 per share. Said bonds are secured by first mortgage on said mining company's valuable properties in Shoshone county, Idaho. Such bonds and stocks are to be sold as an entirety. and such bonds are a majority of the first mortgage bonds, the issue of bonds being $400,000.00 (four hundred thousand dollars). Said sale to be for cash, payable within thirty days after notice of acceptance of bid. All bids must be accompanied by a certified check for $5,000 (five thousand dollars), payable to the undersigned, to be forfeited unless full payment be made within the time specified. The undersigned reserve the right to reject any and all bids. All bids must be sealed and addressed to either of the undersigned, at Spokane, Wash. A. D. LYNCH, Receiver First National Bank. FRED B. GRINNELL, Receiver Spokane Savings Bank. Spokane, Wash.. Sept. 25, 1897.

7. October 8, 1897 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle, WA
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RECEIVER'S SALE. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for King County, W. W. Dearborn et al., plaintiffs, VS. The Washington Savings Bank, defendant. No. 17,308. Notice is hereby given that under an order of court made in said cause on October 1. 1897, the undersigned will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, on Wednesday, October 20th, 1897, all those certain pieces of personal property of the Washington Savings Bank set out and described in a certain petition of the undersigned, filed in said court on the 30th day of August, 1897. Said property consists among other things of the following: Promissory notes, secured by mortgage and other collateral, and unsecured. Yakima county warrants. Whatcom county warrants. Seattle street improvement warrants. Town of Columbia warrants. Town of Hamilton warrants. Town of Centralia warrants. Clallam county warrants. Anacortes school distruct warrants. Tax certificates and tax deeds on property in King county, Washington, for the years 1890, 1891, 1892 and 1893. Said sale will take place in the Library Room of the King County Court House, Seattle, King County, Washington, and will be continued from day to day until all the property is sold. Terms of sale: Ten per cent. cash on the day of sale and the balance in cash on confirmation of sale by the court. A detailed list of said property may be had on application to the undersigned. At the same time and place the receiver will, under an order of court in said cause, sell ten six per cent. bonds of the Third Street & Suburban Railway Company to the highest and best bidder for cash, upon the following terms: No bid to be received for less than $1,380 for the ten bonds: terms. ten per cent. cash on the day of sale and balance in cash on confirmation of sale by the court. GEORGE H. KING. Receiver of the Washington Savings Bank, Room 53, Boston Block, Seattle, Washington. Clise & King. Attorneys for Receiver. Date of first publication October 5, 1897. RECEIVER'S SALE.-Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will receive sealed bids for the period of thirty days after the first day of October, 1897, for the purchase of $226,200.00, par value, of the first mortgage bonds of the Last Chance Mining Company, and for 97,108 shares of its capital stock, of the par value of $10 per share. Said bonds are secured by first mortgage on said mining company's valuable properties in Shoshone county. Idaho. Such bonds and stocks are to be sold as an entirety, and such bonds are a majority of the first mortgage bonds. the issue of bonds being $400,000.00 (four hundred thousand dollars). Said sale to be for cash, payable within thirty days after notice of acceptance of bid. All bids must be accompanied by a certifled check for $5,000 (five thousand dollars). payable to the undersigned, to be forfeited unless full payment be made within the time specified. The undersigned reserve the right to reject any and all bids. All bids must be sealed and addressed to either of the undersigned, at Spokane, Wash. A. D. LYNCH. Receiver First National Bank. FRED B. GRINNELL. Receiver Spokane Savings Bank. Spokane, Wash., Sept. 25, 1897.

8. October 11, 1897 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle, WA
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RECEIVER'S SALE. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for King County. W. W. Dearborn et al., plaintiffs, vs. The Washington Savings Bank, defendant. No. 17,308. Notice is hereby given that under an order of court made in said cause on October 1. 1897, the undersigned will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, on Wednesday, October 20th, 1897. all those certain pieces of personal property of the Washington Savings Bank set out and described in a certain petition of the undersigned, filed in said court on the 30th day of August, 1897. Said prop rty consists among other things of the following: Promissory notes, secured by mortgage and other collateral. and unsecured. Yakima county warrants. Whatcom county warrants. Seattle street improvement warrants. Town of Columbia warrants. Town of Hamilton warrants. Town of Centralia warrants. Clallam county warrants. Anacortes school district warrants. Tax certificates and tax deeds on property in King county, Washington, for the years 1890, 1891, 1892 and 1893. Said sale will take place in the Library Room of the King County Court House. Seattle, King County, Washington, and will be continued from day to day until all the property is sold. Terms of sale: Ten per cent. cash on the day of sale and the balance in cash on confirma tion of sale by the court. A detailed list of said property may be had on application to the undersigned. At the same time and place the receiver will, under an order of court in said cause, sell ten six per cent. bonds of the Third Street & Suburban Railway Company to the highest and best bidder for cash, upon the following terms: No bld to be received for less than $1,380 for the ten bonds: terms, ten per cent. cash on the day of sale and balance in cash on confirmation of sale by the court. KING. H. GEORGE Receiver of the Washington Savings Bank, Room 53, Boston Block, Seattle, Washington Clise & King. Attorneys for Receiver. Date of first publication October 5. 1897. RECEIVER'S SALE.-Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will receive sealed bids for the period of thirty days after the first day of October, 1897, for the purchase of $226,200.00, par value, of the first mortgage bonds of the Last Chance Mining Company, and for 97,108 shares of its capital stock, of the par value of $10 per share. Said bonds are secured by first mortgage on said mining company's valuable properties in Shoshone county. Idaho. Such bonds and stocks are to be sold as an entirety, and such bonds are a majority of the first mortgage bonds, the issue of bonds being $400,000 00 (four hundred thousand dollars). Said sale to be for cash, payable within thirty days after notice of acceptance of bid. All bids must be accompanied by a certified check for $5,000 (live thousand dollars). payable to the undersigned, to be forfeited unless full payment be made within the time specified. The undersigned reserve the right to reject any and all bids. All bids must be sealed and addressed to either of the undersigned, at Spokane, Wash. A. D. LYNCH, Receiver First National Bank. FRED B. GRINNELL Receiver Spokane Savings Bank. Spokane, Wash. Sept. 25, 1897. MINES AND MINING STOCK. WE HAVE MINES and claims in Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and other states for sale or trade: our list is growing daily both of buyers and sellers. Room 20. Post-Intelligencer block. SHARES Alaska and Klondike stock for sale; also Forty-five, Independent and Rossland stocks, cheap. Call on or address Christian, Roxwell block. HERBERT HAVEN mines and mining stock bought and sold, 413 Seattle National Bank building. ASSAYER AND CHEMIST. A L. JOHNSON. Assayer. 116 Yesler way. INSURANCE. ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY, of London-Organized 1808. Assets, $10,000,000. Fire losses promp adjusted. Edmund Bowden, agent, Horton bank building. CHARLES WATSON, insurance. 302. 303 and 304 New York building. Telephone, Main 408. BURNS & ATKINSON, general insurance. 14 Boston block. GOODWIN, RASER & FISKEN, insurance. Haller block. WATERHOUSE & BEACH, insurance. A Colman building. HANFORD & STEWART, insurance. 207 Pioneer building. CALHOUN & CO., general insurance. Olympic block. CRAWFORD, CONOVER & CO., New York block ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. FRED H. PETERSON attorney and counselor. Rooms 1-3 Olympic block. PRATT & RIDDLE. attorneys at law, rooms 309-310-311 Bailey building. STRUVE, ALLEN HUGHES & McMicken. Bailey building. ANDREW F. BURLEIGH, attorney at law. 228 Burke building. HUMPHRIES HUMPHREY & EDSEN, Occidental block. W. D LAMBUTH, Seattle National Bank building. FRANK B. WIESTLING, Occidental blk, W. F. HAYS-Offices, 424-5-6 New York blk. MILO A. ROOT. 10-14 Roxwell building. M. M. MADIGAN, 507 New York block. J M WIESTLING Balley building PATENTS AND DRAWING. ADAMS. Colman block, Seattle, solicitor of United States and Canadian patents. Expert-Patent office. mechanical drawing and blue printing, trade marks ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS. BRIDGE

9. October 14, 1897 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle, WA
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RECEIVER'S SALE. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for King. County. W. W. Dearborn et al., plaintiffs, vs. The Washington Savings Bank, defendant. No. 17,308. Notice is hereby given that under an order of court made in said cause on October 1, 1897, the undersigned will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, on Wednesday, October 20th, 1897, at 10 a. m., all those certain pieces of personal property of the Washington Savings Bank set out and described in a certain petition of the undersigned. filed in said court on the 30th day of August, 1897. Said property consists among other things of the following: Promissory notes, secured by mortgage and other collateral, and unsecured. Yakima county warrants. Whatcom county warrants. Seattle street improvement warrants. Town of Columbia warrants. Town of Hamilton warrants. Town of Centralia warrants. Clallam county warrants. Anacortes school district warrants. Tax certificates and tax deeds on property in King county, Washington, for the years 1890, 1891, 1892 and 1893. Said sale will take place in the Library Room of the King County Court House, Seattle, King County, Washington, and will be continued from day to day until all the property is sold. Terms of sale: Ten per cent. cash on the day of sale and the balance in cash on confirmation of sale by the court. A detailed list of said property may be had on application to the undersigned. At the same time and place the receiver will, under an order of court in said cause, sell ten six per cent. bonds of the Third Street & Suburban Railway Company to the highest and best bidder for cash, upon the following terms: No bid to be received for less than $1,380 for the ten bonds: terms, ten per cent. cash on the day of sale and balance in cash on confirmation of sale by the court. GEORGE H. KING, Receiver of the Washington Savings Bank, Room 53, Boston Block, Seattle, Washington. Clise & King. Attorneys for Receiver. Date of first publication October 5, 1897. RECEIVER'S SALE.-Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will receive sealed bids for the period of thirty days after the first day of October, 1897, for the purchase of $226,200.00, par value, of the first mortgage bonds of the Last Chance Mining Company, and for 97,108 shares of its capital stock, of the par value of $10 per share. Said bonds are secured by first mortgage on said mining company's valuable properties in Shoshone county. Idaho. Such bonds and stocks are to be sold as an entirety, and such bonds are a majority of the first mortgage bonds, the issue of bonds being $400,000.00 (four hundred thousand dollars). Said sale to be for cash, payable within thirty days after notice of acceptance of bid. All bids must be accompanied by a certified check for $5,000 (five thousand dollars), payable to the undersigned, to be forfeited unless full payment be made within the time specified. The undersigned reserve the right to reject any and all bids. All bids must be sealed and addressed to either of the undersigned, at Spokane, Wash. A. D. LYNCH, Receiver First National Bank. FRED B. GRINNELL Receiver Spokane Savings Bank. Spokane, Wash.. Sept. 25, 1897.

10. October 17, 1897 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle, WA
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RECEIVER'S SALE. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for King County. W. W. Dearborn et al, plaintiffs, vs. The Washington Savings Bank, defendant. No. 17,308. Notice is hereby given that under an order of court made in said cause on October 1, 1897, the undersigned will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, on Wednesday, October 20th, 1897, at 10 m., all those certain pieces of personal property of the Washington Savings Bank are out and described in a certain petition of the undersigned. filed in said court on the 30th day of August, 1897. Said property consists among other things of the following: Promissory notes, secured by mortgage and other collateral. and unsecured. Yakima county warrants. Whatcom county warrants. Seattle street improvement warrants. Town of Columbia warrants. Town of Hamilton warrants. Town of Centralia warrants. Clallam county warrants. Anacortes school district warrants. Tax certificates and tax deeds on property in King county, Washington, for the years 1890, 1891, 1892 and 1893. Said sale will take place in the Library Room of the King County Court House. Seattle, King County, Washington, and will be continued from day to day until all the property is sold. Terms of sale: Ten per cent. cash on the day of sale and the balance in cash on confirmation of sale by the court. A detailed list of said property may be had on application to the undersigned. At the same time and place the receiver will, under an order of court in said cause, sell ten six per cent. bonds of the Third Street & Suburban Railway Company to the highest and best bidder for cash, upon the following terms: No bid to be received for less than $1,380 for the ten bonds: terms, ten per cent. cash on the day of sale and balance in cash on confirmation of sale by the court. GEORGE H. KING. Receiver of the Washington Savings Bank. Room 53, Boston Block, Seattle, Washington. Clise & King. Attorneys for Receiver. Date of first publication October 5, 1897. RECEIVER'S SALE-Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will receive sealed bids for the period of thirty days after the first day of October, 1897, for the purchase of $226,200.00. par value, of the first mortgage bonds of the Last Chance Mining Company, and for 97,108 shares of its capital stock, of the par value of $10 per share. Said bonds are secured by first mortgage on said mining company's valuable properties in Shoshone county, Idaho. Such bonds and stocks are to be sold as an entirety, and such bonds are a majority of the first mortgage bonds, the Issue of bonds being $400,000.00 (four hundred thousand dollars). Said sale to be for cash, payable within thirty days after notice of acceptance of bid. All bids must be accompanied by a certified check for $5,000 (five thousand dollars), payable to the undersigned, to be forfeited unless full payment be made within the time specified. The undersigned reserve the right to reject any and all bids. All bids must be sealed and addressed to either of the undersigned, at Spokane, Wash. A. D. LYNCH, Receiver First National Bank. FRED B. GRINNELL Receiver Spokane Savings Bank. Spokane, Wash., Sept. 25, 1897. RECEIVER'S SALE-In the superior court of King county, state of Washington. J. W. Van Brocklin, plaintiff. VS. Queen City Printing Company, defendant. No 23,378. Notice of sale. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will receive sealed bids for the period of ninety days from and after October 1, 1897. for the purchase of the following described property, viz.: For the entire plant and stock in trade, together with the business and good will of the Queen City Printing Company, now being operated by the undersigned as a job printing and publishing office. The property consists of a complete outfit of job and body type and furniture, also 1 Babcock cylinder press, 3 Gordon job presses, power paper cutter, wire stitcher and other machinery and tools necessary for carrying on a very extensive printing business; also a small stock of paper and inks. Sald sale to be for cash upon approval by the court. All bids must be accompanied by a certified check for $100, said check to be returned to bidder in case his bid is rejected. Said receiver reserves the right to reject any and all bids. D. E. DURIE. Receiver of Queen City Printing Co., 210 Occidental Ave., Seattle, Wash.